Uncle points out the post Annie, Drop Your Gun which includes this bit of wisdom:
I lost three friends in gun-related accidents in High School and since graduation. Two were accidental. One was suicide. I grew up in upper middle class suburbia where everyone lived gated existences. There was NO REASON for them to have handguns in the house. None. If gun control existed, I would have three friends alive. PERIOD.
Do I carry a gun in my house? Never. Do I believe in the right to bear arms? Yes. But I believe there should be stricter regulations. I believe that fear is the worst possible reason to carry a weapon and therefor will never understand why so many feel the need to “protect their families,” especially when housed in gated communities in middle-class suburbs, alarms activated.
What are you afraid of? [emphasis in original]
Look! A “yes but” moment!
It’s little tough to get past the quote-marked “protect their families” bit, to be honest. What’s that all about? She not only seems to dismiss the idea that people believe they’re protecting their families, but he she goes on to claim that it’s unnecessary.
Which is interesting because, only three paragraphs above the excerpt I posted she wrote this:
We live in one of the largest cities in the world. Where drive-bys occur blocks from us. Where break-ins happen regularly. Where our own things have been stolen, our cars broken into, our things swiped from our porch. Three years ago, a man carjacked my husband at gun-point, stole his car and left him on the side of the road. He had just left the set of his job for his lunch break. There were dozens of witnesses. Everyone watched in shock.
What are you afraid of? indeed.
So she’s more or less established that families either shouldn’t or can’t be protected, and then there’s this in the comments section:
I do think there is a legitimate need for firearms…for SOME people. For example, we used guns on the farm…but is there a need for us to have a gun in our home now? No. We dont have livestock to defend, we dont have wild animals roaming our suburban street. And as far as Im concerned..there is no other reason to have a gun.
Sounds like protecting familes = bad but protecting livestock = good.
And the statement “we dont have wild animals roaming our suburban street” is quite amazing. We’ve got the wildest of the wild animals roaming our suburban streets. Hell of a lot worse than coyotes.